New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . TWO ;r^ Ueto of tflf Colony of ^ NfW-tork, tl)10 BitL ftftllberecerved in. all PaymtntJ in Hm Titafitiy^ for TWO POUNDS, TTEW-rOKK, n f Vebrwcy ifr, 1771. ^^r* A*«l«»f O^^d^O. COLONIAL CURRENCY. CHAPTER XV The Genes iies, Cities, and XUVViNfc^illPS UPON the 13th of November, 1675, thefirst counties within the limits ofthe State were created bj act of theLegislature of East Jersey, uponthe plea of the necessity for erect-ng county courts. The statute, although indefi-lite in its description of boundaries, clearly
New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . TWO ;r^ Ueto of tflf Colony of ^ NfW-tork, tl)10 BitL ftftllberecerved in. all PaymtntJ in Hm Titafitiy^ for TWO POUNDS, TTEW-rOKK, n f Vebrwcy ifr, 1771. ^^r* A*«l«»f O^^d^O. COLONIAL CURRENCY. CHAPTER XV The Genes iies, Cities, and XUVViNfc^illPS UPON the 13th of November, 1675, thefirst counties within the limits ofthe State were created bj act of theLegislature of East Jersey, uponthe plea of the necessity for erect-ng county courts. The statute, although indefi-lite in its description of boundaries, clearly stateshat two such courts should be held each year inBergen and its adjacent plantations, in Elizabeth-own and Newark, in Woodbridge and Piscata-vay, and in the two towns of Navesink. To theseour counties no names were given, nor were theirimits defined until March, 1682, when Bergen,3ssex, Middlesex, and Monmouth were set off bylame. In the act of the East Jersey Legislature creat-ng these territorial subdivisions, Bergen was de-ined as embracing all of what is now Hudson(east of the Hackensack River) and a portion ofnodern Bergen County. Essex comprised modernEssex, Union, part of Passaic, part of Hudson, agreater part of Bergen, and a portion of
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